Keanu Reeves Books

This book is well researched and considering the enigmatic subject, has quite a lot of information. It will take you from childhood to 1997 and "The Devil's Advocate", and it has many wonderful photos. It also has a very detailed filmography which I have found useful, and for Keanu fans, the face on the cover will be reason enough to own this book !

What can you say about a man who is so enigmatic and shuns any attempts to have his private live revealed...

Well, Mr Robb does a good job of revealing the Reevester as best he can, but asking those around him...

I like this book ~ it's accurate [yeah, what do I know about Keanu ~ A LOT!!] and shows him in a favourable light.

Us fans ain't got a lot to go on and I am pleased that someone has made an effort to get to know The One.

It is up to date as well, with revisions made to co-incide with Keanu's up and coming movies.

AND HAS LOTS AND LOTS OF DROOL WORTHY PIX OF KEANU so it's a must for the fans...

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If ya want to get a sense of what Keanu is all about ~ BUY THIS BOOK!!

Brian Robb's fan-oriented book, "Keanu Reeves: An Excellent Adventure", admirably fulfills its purpose. It supplies Keanu's numerous fans with his life's story, and pics galore. There is a pic of this excellent dudestud in black leather pants and boots which will take your breath away, whether you're gay or straight!

I highly recommend this book to all fans of the Ke-Master. He rules!

All one ever needs or wants to know about Keanu Reeves, one of Hollywood's most intriguing actors, can be found in this book by Brian J. Robb. Originally published in 1997, it was updated two years ago and contains a section on "The Matrix" as well as entailing his (then) upcoming movies such as "Thumbsucker", a newly-released film I saw recently.

Keanu is "sui generis". There is no other actor quite like him and I mean that in a good way. Like other actors he's had his moments of triumph and suffered from films that didn't do well, but Keanu seems to emerge from all of this stronger and with a larger range of roles each time. There have always been critics who find Keanu less than convincing as an actor, but in the many films in which I've seen him, Keanu is always compelling and often displays real talent. (If I had to pick a favorite, I most liked Keanu in "Speed")

It's hard to imagine a biography about someone who is just in his early forties, but author Robb has combed his subject's life and found much to relate. Besides the complete list of Keanu's films, about which Robb goes into great detail, the actor's life apart from the screen is covered as well. It is a good thing to know that most of the actors and actresses who have worked with Keanu find him to be a very nice guy who tends to prefer a quieter life off-camera...that is, when he's not bike riding or performing with his band, Dogstar.

This book is replete with photographs which make a wonderful addition. The writing is crisp and although Robb's book is largely informational, he steers clear of a "kiss and tell" biography. For those of us who enjoy Keanu Reeves, I highly recommend this book.

If you are a Keanu fan or if you just want to read something interesting, this is the book for you. This book gives a lot of information about Keanu. I definately recomend it. It gets into his life and career and makes you understand what he was going through, it almost made me cry! I love this book and I hope you love it too.

It's a great book for Keanu fans. It dwells into the unknown realms of this secluded star. I would suggest it to anyone whether you like Keanu or not.

I'm an incredibly huge fan of Keanu and I must say that, of all the biographies i've read, it's not much for background information, but the pictures were so incredible. I especially love the ones taken before he was a huge star. They really show his feelings at the time.

I got this book, and I'm like "WOW" This book has the best pictures........at leat 3 on each page!! So if you like Keanu, I reccomend you get this book.

I've read this book! & Just want to say if ya want to know ALMOST everything about the GREATEST guy in the universe this is it!

hes fabulous in everything, I think he is the best in every thing he does and a very intriguing person as private as he is, you can see right through him,through his eyes, they say it all without a word!.I have most of his movies Im now starting on his books. I saw him at Janice Landing in St.Petersburg,fl.It was great !!!!!!!!! The best night of my life.

The actor's life and talent are covered from his theatrical beginnings in Toronto to his present leading man status in Hollywood. The reluctant, press shy star with nomadic tendencies, a love of life ,and millions of adoring fans, comes into focus by Nickson's talent. This book is as easy on the eyes as the man is

Everyone has their theory of The Matrix, and everyone seems to have a "philosophy," so I'll just throw mine in...

If you think the Matrix is "real", that is, while your life is going on around you, your brain is sitting in a glass jar in some alien harvest crop, it either a) doesn't matter, or b) if it were true, it still doesn't matter.

First of all, your brain is stuck in a container, while your life goes on around you. It's called your skull. Much like a jar, it's a container, and it's opaque, so no direct sunlight gets in. And it just stays in the same relative spot for the rest of your life. Wether it's a jar, a skull, or a high-tech French contraption, it makes no difference. It's the cavity that holds your organ that processes what is real for the rest of your life. So, for me, to find out that my brain is in a "dark, isolated, material, cavity" as such, makes no difference, and is in no way a startling existential revelation.

Secondly, the great flaw with the alien captor theory, is that even if there were a race of aliens who have all our brains in jars, lined up in rows on some freaky farm, whom or what is to say that some other alien isn't doing the same to them? and then that race gets the jump on that race, and on, and on, and on. So, while we're trying to escape from their jars, maybe they're trying to get their alien brains out of their captors' jars?

You know, galactic growing pains meets James at 15?

It's like walking into a hair salon and looking into the infinite mirror reflections, and eventually it's too dark and blurry to distinguish anything of practical value (infinite regress). So, what you end up doing is going through the life you can understand and function in, anyways. You're not really given any other options.

There's also some fuzzy logic that comes along with aliens who put our brains in a jar and spend all sorts of time "fooling silly humans". If their so advanced, and have such unlimited technology and resources, and have their run of the universe, it does beg the question - don't you have anything better to do with your time, than to sit around and pull the legs off humans?

Other than that, the book is a good intro to philosophy and existential thought, but you should proceed with the idea that as interesting as some of the essays are, like Matrix III, some of the essays can be deleted, are repetitive, more fluffy than some of the other reviews you may read. And I will say, of all the "Philosophy of..." books that came out after this one, The Philosophy of The Matrix is one of the better ones.

One more thing. If aliens we can't see manipulated movie studios into writing The Matrix, why couldn't they find better alien writers for matrix III? After all, they can trick any brain into doing something, whenever they feel like it. Why would they make a bad movie so that people become suspicious? That makes no philisophical sense.

I ordered the book for a friend, another professor, but Amazon shipped it UPS with signature required. UPS left two stickers on my door while I was at work and I never got the book.

Why not USP--the US Post? A paperback book with value of $17 does not need to be shipped and handled like opium or gold. If UPS, why signature?

Bottom line, it was returned to Amazon, I ate the shipping charges, and bought the book at my local Barnes & Noble. End of review.

Great book, BTW. I'm teaching it next term. But the university will do a brokered order through Bowker and students will pay a 40% mark-up, I suppose. Who's getting rich on this racket?

--Dan Bentley-Baker

If you are looking for a book that details the Philosophy of The Matrix movie, this book isn't for you. I thought that The Matrix raised some unique and interesting philosphical questions that I wanted to see expanded, so I bought this book. While parts of this book are interesting and well-written, most of it relates to how The Matrix interacts with other philosphical models that we are already familiar with. Each chapter is written by a different author, with a different perspective on the movie. Particularly irritating was an essay that should have been entitled "Why eXistenZ is a better movie than The Matrix."
As I said, parts of this book were interesting, but much of it wasn't. Also, it seemed like each contributor had to reference the scene where Cyber decides to betray his friends to Agent Smith as part of their contract, because it comes up many, many times.

This is an excellent book where some great minded philosophers tackle the issues presented in the Matrix. Solipsism, Buddhism, and Christian themes are explored, placing the beloved movie into schemes that all can enjoy.

Primarily asking "If the matrix could be real?" was the main reason why I was interested in this book. Solipsism has always been fascinating to me, and even in my deepest philosophical moments I do consider myself a solipsist. However, I was disappointed with the articles on this subject. Rotten with axiomatic contradictions, I felt that some of the authors were too shallow in their approach to ascertain if our observable world is true.

However, I still greatly recommend this book to philosophically minded people.

This book is not philosophy. It is a bunch of esays that could never have been published even in a mediocre journal. But put the word "matrix" with the word "philosophy" and som epeople will by anything.

This is mostly about the early career of this terrific actor, and it's fairly well written and researched (though there are some errors) , with a total of 12 photos of him from his films...this small volume isn't exactly Dostoevsky, but it contains over 40 pages of Keanu, so how can you not love it ! York Membery closes the book by saying "of course, nothing is certain in the fickle world of the movies. But whatever happens, it seems likely that Keanu Reeves will be around for a long time". A very long time...he's the stuff legends are made of !

SPOTTY DETAILS, SOME INFORMATION ON FAMILY HISTORY INCORRECT, ROBERT MILLER KATINA MILLERS'S FATHER NOT SAM REEVES, NOT THE BEST READING I'VE BEEN EXPOSED TO ABOUT KEANU AND I'VE READ A LOT.

I am a Keanu Fan, but this book is a VERY POOR, and I do mean POOR QUALITY book. It looks like someone XEROXED the book 100 times and decided to sell it for [$$]. It is not worth that much money - maybe [$]. If you are a big fan of Keanu, there are better quality and better books out there. BUY at your own risk - it costs a lot to return the item!

So, it's not the best book in the world, who cares! It's about Keanu and although there is little out there on this beloved man (he is a very private person), anything we can get our hands on is a bonus......

I've had a little version of this book (published in UK) for a while. I bought the US version as it has bigger (maybe not better, but BIGGER!) pictures.

It is Keanu's bio in a nutshell. Could do with revision, but what the hey!

Lots of pix of The Reevester. Good or any fan!

Go and buy this...!

Oh, my this book was great. Always rememeber that Keanu is a very secret man and very fine. I now have pictures of keanu Reeves that his girlfriend probably doesn't even have. He look so good and has a good family and life. I have seen almost every movie that Keanu has been in and he is a very simple guy and VERY FINE GUY. I want to read all of Keanu's books. From this book I learned alot about his family, his films, and him. I loved the book. THE BOOK ARE GREAT HE IS FINE One day i hope to met him.